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The best Premier League wingers in 2024-25 so far

By Squawka News

Published: 11:26, 5 February 2025

Who’s the best winger in the Premier League right now?

Mohamed Salah is the highest-performing winger in the Premier League, registering more goals (21) and assists (13) than any other player.

But Salah isn’t the only elite winger in the English top flight. After all, the Egyptian shares the pitch with Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo at Anfield, while across the rest of the league, the likes of Bukayo Saka and Son Heung-min have been ripping full-backs apart for years now.

So, who are the Premier League’s very best wingers right now?

With the 2024/25 season underway, here are the best-performing wingers in the Premier League ranked by their wide-forward Squawka score. Only players with 1,080+ minutes (around half of the possible minutes across the season) under their belts are considered.

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5. Bryan Mbeumo

  • Team: Brentford
  • Squawka Score: 76%

The summer sale of Ivan Toney hasn’t affected Brentford in the slightest and a large reason for that is the form of Bryan Mbeumo. The Cameroonian winger has notched 14 goals so far, with only four players managing more, and that has made him one of the most in-demand players in the Premier League.

The Bees kept hold of Mbeumo in the January window but if he continues his current scoring rate through the end of the season, clubs will be circling again in the summer for sure.

4. Dango Ouattara

  • Team: Brentford
  • Squawka Score: 77%

Dango Ouattara has posted some impressive raw numbers for surprise package Bournemouth, sitting on six goals and four assists so far. But even when he’s not getting amongst the goals, he’s proving a terror for defenders, sitting in the Premier League’s 80th-95th percentile (among wingers) for big chances created (0.58 per 90) and touches in the opposition box (6.32).

Ouattara has also been incredibly effective for Andoni Iraola when hunting the ball down, winning 1.67 tackles per 90, which places him in the 95th percentile.

3. Cody Gakpo

  • Team: Liverpool
  • Squawka Score: 80%

Cody Gakpo hasn’t always been first choice at Liverpool but when he does play, he’s extremely effective. In fact, the Netherlands international has eight goals and three assists in just 1,304 minutes so far this season, with nine of those goal involvements (7g/2a) coming since the start of December.

Gakpo has only been dispossessed 0.9 times per 90 this season, while he’s in the 95th percentile for open-play goals among wingers (0.55 per 90).

2. Bukayo Saka

  • Team: Arsenal
  • Squawka Score: 82%

Saka is on a mission this season, but not for himself. Instead, he’s doing everything he can to make sure his teammates get among the goals.

The England international has created 19 big chances so far, which is more than any other player in the Premier League. That has translated to 10 assists in 16 games, leaving him just 10 short of the single-season assist record co-held by Kevin De Bruyne and Thierry Henry.

That’s incredible given he hasn’t played a game since December 21st due to injury and on top of that, Saka has weighed in with five goals of his own.

Arsenal need Saka back as soon as possible.

1. Mohamed Salah

  • Team: Liverpool
  • Squawka Score: 84%

Despite it not being his best season for Liverpool, Mohamed Salah still put up incredibly impressive numbers, setting several records. He finished the 2023/24 campaign with 18 goals and 10 assists in 32 Premier League appearances, becoming the first player in the competition’s history to score 10+ goals AND provide 10+ assists in three consecutive seasons.

The Egyptian also created more big chances from open play (22) than any other player in Europe’s top seven leagues and was directly involved in at least one goal against every opponent apart from the three promoted sides. He became the first player in Liverpool’s 131-year history to score 20+ goals across all competitions in SEVEN consecutive seasons and the first player in football history to score in five consecutive away games against Manchester United.

So far this season, he ranks first among all wingers in terms of goals (0.93) per 90. He’s two ahead of Erling Haaland in the Golden Boot race and three ahead of Saka and Antonee Robinson in the Playmaker Award contest with 13 assists, at a rate of 0.53 intentional assists per 90 — only Saka (0.64) and Jacob Murphy (0.53) have more.


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What are Squawka’s ratings based on?

We used Twenty3 Sport’s Discovery Tool to run a customised search. The Discovery Tool rates a player’s per 90 output in the metrics detailed below to produce a percentage score, referred to above as the Squawka Score.

Each player’s stats are compared to the average output of goalkeepers across the past three seasons of big-five European league football. The higher the score, the closer they rank to the 95th percentile and above for each metric.